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Patrick Okumu-Ringa, who lost in the recently-concluded Nebbi Municipality Parliamentary election in Uganda, has dismantled all the boreholes he had sunk that have been supplying water to residents for the past two decades. Okumu-Ringa, who is said to own huge chunks of land in the municipality, had about 10 …

Cynthia Cherop, a student at the Moi University, in Kenya has pleaded guilty to stealing money from her mother to spend with her boyfriend. Cherop, had been accused of stealing KSh70,000 from her mother’s two accounts at the Barclays and National banks before spending it with Josephat Ng’ang’a. She pleaded …

CNN’s Don Lemon has fired back at US President Donald Trump – after the latter took to twiiter last night to call him the dumbest man on television. Trump was reacting to an interview Lemon had with LeBron James about his ‘I Promise School’ in Akron – a public and nonprofit …

Pete Souza served as the White House photographer during Barack Obama’s administration. To celebrate his former boss’ 57th birthday, Souza threw shade by sharing a throwback photo of Obama playing basketball with Lebron James on his 49th birthday. The shade is directed at Trump who is currently in a social media dispute with …

28-year old Reagan Hedlund, a top aide to U.S. First Lady Melania Trump has reportedly left her position in the White House. According to reports, Hedlund who joined the first lady’s staff in January as policy director, abruptly departed from her the role to work on foreign policy issues. “I am …

At 93, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is the oldest leader in the world. In May, he made a shocking return to political power in a bid to save his corruption-plagued country. Mahathir was once at the helm of the country for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, becoming Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister. …

Police have arrested 5 people for their alleged involvement in a kidney-smuggling racket said to be operating from India. Chitwan police arrested Durga Bahadur Darji, 41, Bikram Pahari, 35, Prakash Tamang, Deepak Limbu, 34, and Bishal Nepali, 28, from different parts of the district on different dates, Deputy Superintendent of Police Prabhu Prasad Dhakal of District …

Ugandan Constitutional court on Friday, validated a constitutional amendment that removes an age limit for presidential aspirants, clearing the way for long-serving President Yoweri Museveni to remain in power for life. After more than 11 hours of debate, 4 out of the 5 justices on the Constitutional court rejected a challenge …

A young girl was brutally murdered by unknown attackers as she was going home from work and her corpse was dumped in a church in Zambia. The shocking incident reportedly happened around Kabwe’s Site and Service area in Zambia. The young woman’s head was smashed in and there was blood …